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“He Found Himself at a Loss”
For the DeSanctis family, medicine had always been a way of life. Roman DeSanctis, M.D. ’55, was a renowned—and busy—cardiologist, and for his wife, Ruth, and four daughters, that often meant celebrating birthdays early in the morning, so that he could …
Bookish
O ne casualty of the 2008-2009 financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession was the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ physical Courses of Instruction catalog: it and the Student Handbook , Q Guide , and other publications got the ax as of April 1, 2009, …
Issue: January-February 2023
Space Architect
Constance Adams ’86 was interviewing for a job in Houston in 1995 when she decided to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center. “We were touring the site,” she remembers, “and a calm voice was explaining that one day, we would be going to Mars. Of course I sent …
Issue: January-February 2011
A Slim Margin
One evening in mid January, Zena Edosomwan ’17, the star center of Harvard men’s basketball, stood at the free-throw line for what seemed like a low-stakes attempt. Harvard was playing Ryerson, a Canadian team added to the schedule primarily as a tune-up …
Issue: March-April 2016
Men’s Basketball Splits Ivy Home Games
Seniors Evan Cummins , Agunwa Okolie, and Patrick Steeves have played in some of the biggest games in Harvard men’s basketball history: the program’s first victory in the NCAA tournament (a 68-62 upset of New Mexico in 2013), the near-upset of Michigan …
Allston Performing Arts Center Planned
On November 30, Harvard filed plans with the City of Boston to construct a new performing arts center at 175 North Harvard St. in Allston. Ever since the University first announced plans to expand across the Charles River, the arts have been envisioned as …
“Leaving a Legacy”
On a late January Saturday in 2013, the Harvard men’s basketball team trailed visiting Dartmouth College by 10 points with just under two minutes to go, and co-captain Christian Webster ’13 thought, “We cannot lose this game.” A loss at home to …
Admissions, through the Ages
Eight years out of Yale—after stints as a U.S. Marine platoon leader and a teacher—Dwight D. Miller joined the Harvard College admissions office in July 1967. That was before the merger with Radcliffe; before the Supreme Court first ruled on affirmative …
Issue: September-October 2019
Seeing Allston Whole
As Harvard pursues ambitious development projects in Allston, residents fear that their neighborhood—which they describe as uniquely hospitable to families, immigrants, and artists—will come to look a lot like Boston’s Seaport district: a sterile …
"Mr. Clean Vegetables John"
Expelled from Harvard in 1969 for participating in the University Hall takeover, John Berlow ’71 traveled the world, living in Israel, Canada, and West Africa. But he did not go to Vietnam until 2000. “In ’69 I was an angry young man,” he says. “I am not …
Issue: May-June 2010
Heads of the Parade
“I don’t think we have reunions anymore,” said George Post ’45, who turns 102 in the fall, at this year’s third annual Alumni Day, on Friday, May 31. Post—the oldest alumnus at this year’s Alumni Day by three months, who marks his seventh-ninth reunion …
Football: Harvard 40, Cornell 3
With four minutes and 54 seconds remaining in the first quarter this past Saturday at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York, Cornell’s Joe Pierik booted a 33-yard field goal. By jumping ahead 3-0, the Big Red had accomplished what no other opponent had …
COVID-19 Common Sense
A November 17 news briefing by Harvard and other Boston area experts on the current state of COVID-19 in the United States began with a “weather report:” Case data no longer reflect the intensity of the pandemic, said Harvard Medical School (HMS) …
How to Protest Effectively
“Almost everything that we have,” said legal scholar and civil rights attorney Gloria Browne-Marshall during a Tuesday evening event at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), “somebody had to protest for us to have it.” She gestured toward the multi-racial …
Royall House and Slave Quarters
I saac Royall Sr. built a fortune on his Antigua sugar plantation and returned to Boston in 1737 to settle into an opulent Georgian mansion in what’s now Medford, Massachusetts. To operate the surrounding 500-acre farm, enormous by colonial-era standards, …
Issue: September-October 2020